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...Fort Campbell is a long way from the island in the Thar Thar Canal, north of Baghdad. But a court-martial at the U.S. military base, which straddles Kentucky and Tennessee, has begun to examine in detail what happened in that Iraqi locale in May 2006, with polarizing consequences for the way Americans perceive the way the war is being waged...
...allowing six walks. “I think he came out overthrowing a little bit,” Walsh said. “He’s going to be fine.” Harvard continues it’s nine-city, 17-game Florida trip on Saturday in Fort Myers at the Florida Gulf Coast Invitational. The Crimson will face recent foe Notre Dame along with Dayton.—Staff writer Loren Amor can be reached at lamor@fas.harvard.edu...
...from the conditions they're forced to endure daily in barracks. "If you want clean bed sheets and unstopped toilets, lose a leg," he quotes one soldier. "Otherwise, suck it up and drive on, soldier." A general who had been in Walter Reed told Scales that "the barracks at Fort Stewart, at Fort Bragg, at Fort Drum and at Fort Polk are far, far worse than anything I saw at Building 18," where some Walter Reed outpatients lived amid squalor, rodents, mold and cockroaches. "The sense is that Walter Reed is the symptom of a far larger disease," Scales says...
...investigation began as routine probe of suspicious high-volume trading prior to the acquisition of Catellas Development," said Friestad. The probe led to Eric Franklin, a hedge fund manager for Q Capital Investment Partners, LP, a Delaware limited partnership with offices in Fort Lee, N.J. "We linked those trades to Mr. Franklin and obtained trading records for Q Capital, and Mr. Franklin's own records for his personal account, and noticed that what they had in common was Morgan Stanley as the investment banker. We also noticed that a lot of the trading preceded upgrades and downgrades issued...
These men accept the tragedy of war even as they recognize that waging it means accepting that your own opinion doesn't matter. It's the epiphany you get in John Ford's great film Fort Apache, as John Wayne sucks it up and carries out the orders of his pigheaded commanding officer, Henry Fonda, even as it leads to a massacre--and can still say years later, "He made it a command to be proud of." It's what Clint Eastwood was aiming for in his account of the doomed Japanese soldiers in Letters from Iwo Jima--except that...